And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random. - "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut uses satire to expose which societal folly?

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Emmalee Huffman

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30 December, 13:44

And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random. - "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut uses satire to expose which societal folly?

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Samantha Terrell · Answer 1

The satire is used to express society's obsession with equality.

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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. revolves around a dystopian society where everyone was made an equal with no distinction among them. The dystopian government's attempts to maintain equality among the people by altering those different from others represent how our modern real world is infatuated about how people perceive us.

In the given passage from the text, the narrator mentioned that "the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random". This was done so that no one will look different and be the same as everyone else. And in this description of how the men were made the same, Vonnegut satirizes society's obsession with equality.